- Features multiple theoretical perspectives and guidelines for running groups for diverse populations, in the US and worldwide
- Offers modern approaches and practical suggestions in a user-friendly and jargon-free style, with many clinical examples
- Includes a major component on resiliency and trauma relief work, and explores its impact on clinicians
- Accompanied by an online resource featuring discussions of psychotherapeutic techniques in practice
Table of Contents
Contributors ix1. Introduction to Group Psychotherapy 1
Jeffrey L. Kleinberg
Section One: Building the Frame: Theoretical Models 9
Introduction 9
2. Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy: An Overview 13
Priscilla F. Kauff
3. The Interpersonal Model of Group Psychotherapy 33
Molyn Leszcz and Jan Malat
4. Towards an Integrative Intersubjective and Relational Group Psychotherapy 59
Victor L. Schermer and Cecil A. Rice
5. Integrative Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy 89
Greg Crosby, with Donald Altman
6. Functional Subgrouping and the Systems-Centered Approach to Group Therapy 113
Susan P. Gantt
7. The Functional Group Model 139
Sharan L. Schwartzberg and Mary Alicia Barnes
8. It's All About Me: Introduction to Relational Group Psychotherapy 169
Richard M. Billow
9. Resonance among Members and its Therapeutic Value in Group Psychotherapy 187
Avi Berman
10. The Dynamics of Mirror Reactions and their Impact on the Analytic Group 197
Miriam Berger
11. Meeting Maturational Needs in Modern Group Analysis: A Schema for Personality Integration and Interpersonal Effectiveness 217
Elliot Zeisel
12. Developing the Role of the Group Facilitator: Learning from Experience 231
Orit Nuttman-Shwartz and Sarit Shay
13. From Empathically Immersed Inquiry to Discrete Intervention: Are There Limits to Theoretical Purity? 249
Steven L. Van Wagoner
Section Two: Groups for Adults 271
Introduction 271
14. Support and Process-Oriented Therapy Groups 275
Lise Motherwell
15. Working with the Difficult Group Patient 299
Phyllis F. Cohen
16. Working with Primitive Defenses in Group 321
Martha Gilmore
17. Structured Techniques to Facilitate Relating at Various Levels in Group 335
Albert J. Brok
18. Effective Management of Substance Abuse Issues in Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy 345
Marsha Vannicelli
19. Single-Gender or Mixed-Gender Groups: Choosing a Perspective 381
Darryl L. Pure
20. Sexual Diversity in Group Psychotherapy 397
Morris Nitsun
21. Group Therapy For Females Molested In Girlhood 409
Shoshana Ben-Noam
22. Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Quarter of a Century Retrospective 431
Judith Coché
23. The Large Group: Dynamics, Social Implications and Therapeutic Value 457
Haim Weinberg and Daniel J. N. Weishut
24. Dreams and Dreamtelling: A Group Approach 479
Robi Friedman
25. Group Interventions Following Trauma and Disaster 499
Suzanne B. Phillips and Robert H. Klein
26. After the Conflict: Training of Group Supervision in Guatemala 517
Elisabeth Rohr
27. Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Psychosis: A Psychodynamic (Group-Analytic) Approach 547
Ivan Urlic
28. Care for the Caregivers 571
Richard Beck
Section Three: Groups for Children 587
Introduction 587
29. Group Therapy with Children 589
Seth Aronson
30. Adolescent Group Psychotherapy: The Real Work 609
Andrew P. Pojman
31. The Earth as a Classroom: Children’s Groups in the Aftermath of Mass Trauma 623
Emily Zeng
32. A Multidisciplinary Treatment Team Model for Youth Offenders in Correctional Treatment Centers: Applying Psychodynamic Group Concepts 645
D. Thomas Stone Jr. and Anne Carson Thomas
Section Four: Diversity 665
Introduction 665
33. Diversity in Groups: Culture, Ethnicity and Race 667
Siddharth Ashvin Shah and Razia Kosi
34. A Spiritually Informed Approach to Group Psychotherapy 681
Alexis D. Abernethy
Section Five: Through a Personal Lens 707
Introduction 707
35. Group Psychotherapy as my Career Path 709
Walter N. Stone
36. My Development as a Group Therapist 731
Marvin L. Aronson
37. Group Psychotherapy with High-Functioning Adults Or, People Like Me! 745
Bonnie J. Buchele
Author Index 771
Subject Index 785